"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011

I've had enough. I realize its largely our fault we're down 4-2, but this shouldn't be an issue. We should have gone up 3-0 and I doubt they'd have 4 if we had gotten that goal.

If the Big Ten is capable of getting half-competent refs, I'm all for it, because I'm sick of this. We are probably going to lose this game primarily because of how much the CCHA's reffing and quite frankly their review rules in general suck. As long as they do it right, bring on the Big Ten.

I'm sick of sucking like we have this year, but I'm also sick of losing games off inexcusable calls. This might be the second year in a row they rip us out of a win on ND.

"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011

Come on.. we're not losing this game because of the missed call. The refs didn't give Notre Dame any goals, we're just playing like shit since the missed call. A more composed team wouldn't have allowed four goals straight, regardless of the missed call.

Sure, we're not playing great, but that doesn't excuse that they're getting help. The goal, that call on Langlis that also got an embellishment, even the high sticking we just got looked shaky. When does the crap stop? When are we going to lose a game we really need to win without help from the zebras?

This is by no means exclusive to us and by no means limited to this game or this year. We got screwed out of a goal in the AF game last year when they blew the whistle while Cappy was shooting at a wide open net for, via lip-reading "I lost the puck". We lost a game to OSU and ND last year because we got a goal incorrectly called back AND the other team got away with a blatant kick-in. You can blame the camera restrictions all you want, but as clear as those were, they had NO business thinking they were goals in the first place.

I sat almost straight on the blue line at Yost this year, and I can't even begin to count how many offsides have been ROYALLY blown this year, for and against us, calls and non-calls.

"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011

I'm on the other line in 16. How's the line judging over on your side?

"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011

to me that this team doesn't have a calming, poised leader on the roster. Yeah there are some leaders, but not one who is disciplined enough. When the chips are down it appears that hot-headedness prevails and the team just digs themselves down further into a hole.

Here's how you get a penalty one way plus an embellishment call the other:

Player A hooks Player B on the arm, egregious enough for the referee to call, but not much more. Player B then tosses his stick and flops to the ice like someone just hacked his arm off with a chainsaw. Two minutes for the hook, two minutes for the ensuing embellishment. We're playing hockey, not handing out Academy Awards here.

One of the reasons I started liking hockey in the first place was because it seemed like the calls were fairly well defined, the sort of thing I could call, were I to be on ice level and thus the refs really didn't affect the game so much. The polar opposite of fouls in basketball, if you will, which I couldn't call (or non-call) for the life of me, despite literally hours spent on the internet staring at the rules, trying to figure it out. Add in the simplicity of "Goal" or "No Goal" and it's pretty much perfect.

Then there's the CCHA officiating, which needs no further explanation. And then I find there's things like "intent to blow the whistle" and "that's no goal even though the overhead, which is the only view I have, clearly shows the entire puck over the goal line". I guess I should try to figure out basketball again.

Also, it's sort of ironic that Notre Dame keeps complaining about contact to the head and how many injuries they've had because of it, given the way they play. I noticed the same thing last night, but gave it a bit of a pass because they were losing, but I guess that's just how they play.

They don't have "refs", but NASCAR is famous for making it up as they go from time to time. I've seen a race decided on a rules interpretation before (Specifically the "going below the yellow line while in sight of the checkered flag" incident).

They seem to be cutting down on the BS though. Before this year they pretty much decided to throw the decision-making out the window and just told the drivers to police themselves (Bump drafting and what not).

"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011